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Data Collection and Use

How and why Facebook tracks your location data

August 30, 2025May 13, 2021 by Alex
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Learn how Facebook tracks where you’ve been and how you can control it.

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Categories Consumers and Data, Data Collection and Use, Who Has Your Data

How and why Google tracks your location data

August 30, 2025February 16, 2021 by Alex
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Google tracks and saves your location data mostly for advertising, but there are other reasons, too.

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Categories Consumers and Data, Data Collection and Use, Who Has Your Data Tags Article explainer

How Australians feel about being charged different prices for the same goods

August 30, 2025November 5, 2020 by Saimi

Our latest survey shows most people don’t want to be charged a different price for the same product than someone else. 

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Categories Consumers and Data, Data Collection and Use, How Your Data Is Used Tags Article news

Tinder charges older people more

August 30, 2025August 11, 2020 by Saimi
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A CHOICE mystery shop reveals the dating app’s pricing model could fall foul of discrimination laws.

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Categories Consumers and Data, Data Collection and Use, How Your Data Is Used Tags Article investigation, Fact check

Op-ed: Tinder’s secret pricing shows how companies use our data against us

August 30, 2025August 11, 2020 by Erin Turner
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CHOICE director of campaigns Erin Turner calls for ethical data use.

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Categories Consumers and Data, Data Collection and Use, How Your Data Is Used Tags Article news

Personal alarms that leave your data exposed

August 30, 2025October 21, 2019 by Andy Kollmorgen
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CHOICE testing reveals widespread information insecurity.

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Categories Consumers and Data, Data Collection and Use, Who Has Your Data Tags Article investigation

Open banking is coming, and it could save you money

August 30, 2025October 4, 2018 by Nigel
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How gaining control of your data might help you get a better deal from the banks.

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Categories Consumers and Data, Data Collection and Use, How Your Data Is Used

Targeted pricing online

August 30, 2025March 29, 2016 by Jemma Castle
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Why you could be paying a higher price for online goods and services without knowing.

Quick links: How Your Data Is Used Who Has Your Data
Categories Consumers and Data, Data Collection and Use, How Your Data Is Used
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